Eight people were burnt to death after their houses were set on fire at Rampurhat in Birbhum district in West Bengal, police said.

The selection of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader has been delayed by at least a week as the party high command has asked Punjab affairs in charge Harish Chaudhary to listen to a cross-section of party leaders, besides the party candidates...

Eleven people, including seven teenagers drowned in separate incidents in Devbhumi Dwarka, Kheda and Mahisagar districts of Gujarat following Dhuleti celebrations, police said. Dhuleti, a festival of colours, is celebrated a day after Holi in...

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government has decided to beef up security for the high court judges who were part of the special bench that ruled against the plea for allowing Muslim girl students to wear hijab in school and college classrooms.

A total of 231 Muslim students at Government PU College in Uppinangady, Karnataka, refused to sit for preparatory exams when the women among them were told they could not appear for the test wearing the hijab. The college cited the recent Karnataka...

Stressing that Indian missile systems are “safe, secure and reliable”, defence minister Rajnath Singh said the standard operating procedures for their “operations, maintenance and inspections” are being reviewed after the accidental firing of...

At least 18 people died and several others fell ill in three districts of Bihar, a dry state, after consuming spurious liquor on Holi.